The Dutch producer discusses his imagined nostalgia for ’80s pop culture and sheds light on the darker themes of his dystopian mall soundtracks.

We know we can't go back. There was never an Eden—an “authentic” pastoral past that, if we could just rediscover, would save us from our increasingly real alienation. This is why indie is dead. As Ezra Konig put it, “People would rather have genuine fakes than fake genuines.”